Marie Philip, Books that Matter

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

Recent books that draw on Horney

« What happens when we write about ourselves using poetic and fictional techniques? This is the question at the heart of Celia Hunt’s new book, in which she explores the effects of creative life writing on adults taking the MA in Creative Writing and Personal Development at the University of Sussex, a unique and highly successful programme of study which many have described as ‘life changing’. ...

Books That Need Reviewers for the Sigact

In this column, we review 5 books. The first 4 titles are all drawn from AMS's Student Mathematical Library. This series is directed at undergraduates and high school students, but nevertheless covers much material that will be of interest both to educators and to graduate students and seasoned researchers. 1. Primality Testing for Beginners, by Lasse Rempe-Gillen and Rebecca Waldecker. An expo...

Books, books, books.

IAPR Fellow, shares a personal sketch of his career in statistical pattern recognition. At the end, he poses questions to entice further research. Chart of some upcoming IAPR and non-IAPR workshops, conferences, and summer schools of interest to the I APR community. The views expressed in this newsletter represent the personal views of the authors and not necessarily those of their host institu...

Patterns that matter

Pattern mining is one of the best-known concepts in Data Mining. A bigproblem in pattern mining is that humongous amounts of patterns can be minedeven from small datasets. This makes it hard for domain experts to discoverknowledge using pattern mining, for example in the field of Bioinformatics. Inthis thesis we address the pattern explosion using compression.We argue that t...